Hi Donna,
Red Vision is buying the records at forced sale from the counties. The only counties that are safe from this seizure are those who have not digitized their records. The only exception is Michigan where county clerks fought back and won in Federal Court.


I recently interviewed Fort Bend County, Texas Clerk Dianne Wilson and she lamented her ten years of work digitizing the records had been seized. Twenty two million records going back to 1835 were taken from the Fort Bend County servers and uploaded to the Florida company in a matter of a few hours by USB cable. .

Fort Bend County taxpayers paid generations of clerks millions of dollars to compile the information and  hundred thousand dollars to digitize them.

The statutory value of the records is one dollar per page when purchased by local citizens. Red Vision paid two thousand dollars for all 22 million records. It is unlikely this Florida company owns any property in Fort Bend or has ever paid any taxes there, but for $2000 they gained control over the records of every Fort Bend County taxpayer, living and dead.

Red Vision isn't the first or only company to exploit the Open Records laws this way. Ask your local clerk. Then ask your legislators to provide laws to stop this exploitation of your citizens.